Family-making : contemporary ethical challenges / edited by Françoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baylis, Françoise, 1961- editor.

McLeod, Carolyn, editor.

Series:

Issues in biomedical ethics.

Issues in biomedical ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Adoption--Moral and ethical aspects.

Adoption.

Bioethics.

Reproductive Techniques--ethics.

Parenting.

Medical Subjects:

Reproductive Techniques--ethics.

Parenting.

Adoption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Contemporary ethical challenges

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A team of experts explore the ethics of making families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. They examine the moral choices involved, and the social norms that can distort decision-making, such as the norm in favour of having biologically related children, or the privileging of a traditional understanding of family.

Contents:

Goods of parenting / Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift

Goods of childhood and children's rights / Samantha Brennan

Critique of the bionormative concept of the family / Charlotte Witt

Families of assisted reproduction and adoption / Lucy Blake, Martin Richards, and Susan Golombok

What is the value of procreation? / Christine Overall

Unique value of adoption / Tina Rulli

State regulation and assisted reproduction : balancing the interests of parents and children / Jurgen De Wispelaere and Daniel Weinstock

"Not for the faint of heart" : assessing the status quo on adoption and parental licensing / Carolyn McLeod and Andrew Botterell

On non-biological maternity, or "my daughter is going to be a father!" / Julie Crawford

Special responsibilities of parents using technologically assisted reproduction / James Lindemann Nelson

Adoptee vulnerability and post-adoptive parental obligation / Mianna Lotz

Political geography of whites adopting Black children in the United States / Heath Fogg Davis

Analogies to adoption in arguments against anonymous gamete donation : geneticizing the desire to know / Kimberly Leighton

Transnational commercial contract pregnancy in India / Françoise Baylis

Aged parenting through ART and other means / Jennifer A. Parks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-101928-3

0-19-175709-8

OCLC:

884725835